The song “Jim” recently added to the playlist is an acoustic demo (solo at home) recording by michael gira. this, and many other new songs recorded in the same way comprise many of the new (rough versions) of songs under consideration, to be fleshed out on the coming new swans album. a cd of these acoustic versions, as well as a live (2 shows) dvd of m.gira will be for sale very soon as a hand made (by gira) package called I Am Not Insane (CD/DVD). this package – in a limited edition of 1000 - will be sold in order to raise money for the swans recordings/offset the huge costs involved... check back here or at http://younggodrecords.com for ordering details and more information...coming soon...coming soon...

principal players on the swans album are (and there will be many special guests):

Actually, I've managed to order it already. I found that the information was up regarding the CD/DVD, I read through it quickly and then I revisited the page some time later to read more in detail. And there it was, the possibility of ordering - so of course I placed my order. And now it's marked as "temporarily unavailable". I suppose they were working on it and I just happened to hit the very few seconds when the ordering link was up.

Gira will probably think that I am insane. Which is probably quite accurate.

You may now officially cut out the word "probably" from my last sentence in the above post.

I've amused myself with refreshing that page on the Young God Records site a couple of times (I am currently bored out of my mind, yes...) and it seems that Gira is doing something rather similar to the Golden Dossier project, with different backing options/packages available. Great idea. I hope that it will work out in the same way it did for Shearwater, with lots of backers for the project.

I have now seen Swans live, last Sunday in Birmingham. It was an amazing show! I'm still hovering a few millimeters above the floor with sheer excitement.

I didn't take any pictures or videos or anything, but I suppose some other people did - I'll search youtube for whatever is up there. In the meantime, here are some photos from The Button Factory in Dublin on October 22 (thanks to John Kealy!). I love this one of Thor: